The best tutorial I ever seen on the web for the moment showing a full “how to” jailbreak a 2.0 iPhone. Start your recorders!

The back up process can be a pain for iPhone users who have a lot of applications installed on their device.

If you’re impatient (or bored of the backup process) to synchronize only your iPhone and try to cancel the backup, the iPhone won’t sync, since it makes the backup before it synchronizes your datas. Worst, according to a blogger:

The other problem is that if you ever cancel a backup (by clicking the ‘x’ next to the progress bar), it apparently corrupts the existing backup — so if you do then go to restore your iPhone, the backup won’t be usable.

The solution is a command line to type from the Terminal; it will prevent your iPhone from backing up the datas and directly sync.
Prior to do this be sure iTunes is closed.
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For those of you wondering how to remove Inquisitor from their system here are the locations of the files to delete (while Safari is closed) to remove it:

Inquisitor.bundle (in Library/InputManagers/Inquisitor/)
Inquisitor folder (in “user=you”/Library/Application Support/)
inquisitor.pkg (in Library/Receipts/)
inquisitorPreflight.pkg (also in Library/Receipts/)
inquisitor folder (in Library/InputManagers/)

Google just added CalDAV support to Google calendars, here’s a tutorial on how to synchronize Google Calendars on iCal without any third party application or plugin installed:

1. Go to preferences from iCal and select the “accounts” tab
2. Click the “+” button to add a new account
   
3. Fill the pop up with these informations:
   Description: This will be the title for your CalDAV calendar list
   Username: The complete email address you are using with Google Calendar (example: steve@gmail.com).
   Password: The password you are using to sign in to Google Calendar.
   In the Server Options drop-down, enter [ https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/ [ your Google Calendar email address ] /user ] as your Account URL (example: https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/steve@gmail.com/user)
   
4. Then click on add and wait a few minutes until your calendars are completely synched to your Mac; all subsequent syncs are instantaneous.
   

These advises apply to iPhone users, especially iPhone 3G users (since the battery life is weaker for the 2nd iPhone).

1. First thing to do of course, is to turn off “bluetooth”. Apple didn’t make of it a very interesting feature after all since you can’t send/receive anything from a computer or other device. No regrets then.
2. Second thing to do is to turn off the auto-brightness and be sure you didn’t set the brightness to the max (a bit more than 50% is ok).
3. Turn off push and sync your iPhone from iTunes like you used to before.
   If you really want to keep “push” for emails, you can at least turn it off for calendars, bookmarks and contacts.
   It’s also better to set “fetch” to manually.
4. Don’t hesitate to restart your iPhone from time to time to give it some “air” to breathe.
5. I remind you, you can also force quit applications from your iPhone just like in a Mac, by pressing and holding the Home button until the crashing application quits.
6. Turn off Wi-Fi when you’re not using it, free hotspots are rare in most of the countries after all.
7. You can also just turn off the phone when you don’t need it (theater, club or else) or just turn on Airplane mode.
8. When you charge your iPhone, be sure you make full cycles, it’s better to charge it when you have 20% and less battery remaining (not before).

A lot of people are complaining about the fact their iPhone isn’t receiving anything from the MobileMe cloud; and I was one of them; but I finally managed and it is now up and working!
Here are the steps I followed to make my iPhone sync my data “over the air“:

1. Sync the iPhone and uncheck the email sync (in iTunes)
2. Open mail.app and deleted my .mac account
3. Setup a “brand new” mobileme account
4. Sync from system preferences the datas (contacts, ical etc)
5. Sync the iPhone and check the MobileMe account (in iTunes)
6. Went to the iPhone and set it up (pref>general>mail, contacts…) to sync these datas over the air
7. (I saw) the contacts names appearing instead of their phone numbers in the recent/missed calls and on the SMS received and sent but still nothing in my address book
8. Restart the iPhone: everything is there!

I still don’t know which of these steps made the “thing” work though…

This free application, Stacks In Da Place, is the easiest way to make your Stacks lokk cool.

All you have to do is to drag and drop a Stack Icon, like one of the great creations available here, and it will create a real box with a stack of files in it!

I just discovered a free application which simply relooks Leopard’s Dock.

You can get LeopardDocks App here, and download Docks here.

Once your Dock is re-designed, no need to keep the app running.

This is my favorite Dock right now :

The Leopard Version of the MobileMe updater was posted by Apple a few hours ago, it wasn’t and it is still not available from your Software Updater.
But a strange thing happened… While it was possible to download the package from here, the link now, is dead.
I have no idea on why this is happening…
Anyway, one thing is now sure, Leopard won’t turn to iTunes OS!
A possible solution is to get it from a Torrents website, for example, this link takes you to a downloadable MobileMe updater.

The file is small: 25 Mb, once installed, you’ll have the updated MobileMe icon in System Preferences instead of the ancien .Mac icon (I’m still looking for the updater for Tiger).

If you check your Software Update after installing the file I linked you to, you’ll see the version 1.1 of MobileMe Updater!

I was expecting to see a small cloud in the menu bar instead of the old double arrows circle, but all I had was… nothing.